NORML

JANUARY 18, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Representative Lou Correa (D-CA) this week introduced HR 493: The Sensible Enforcement Of Cannabis Act, which would codify the protections that were outlined in the now-rescinded Cole Memo. A medical cannabis access bill was signed into law in the U.S.

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NORML

MARCH 14, 2020

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Following are the bills that we’ve tracked this week and as always, check NORML’s Action Center for legislation pending in your state. Legislation is pending, HCR 2045, that seeks to arbitrarily cap the potency of cannabis flowers at two percent THC.

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NORML

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! At the state level, the North Dakota House of Representatives defeated a decriminalization bill on the House floor by a narrow 43-47 vote. Click here to email your Representative and urge them to support this important legislation. California.

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NORML

MARCH 8, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Activists in Nebraska, along with two pro-legalization Senators, qualified a 2020 medical cannabis ballot initiative petition to begin collecting signatures from registered voters in the state. Click here to email your lawmakers in support of decriminalization.

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Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Psilocybin has been in the news with increasing frequency as research into psychedelic therapy has proliferated, and a number of local jurisdictions, including the cities of Oakland, Denver , and Santa Cruz have decriminalized psilocybin to varying degrees. 30 Day Public Comment period ended on 4th December 2019.

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NORML

MAY 3, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Governor Jay Inslee (D) of Washington signed legislation into law allowing medical cannabis to be accessed by patients on school grounds, and separate legislation allowing the production of industrial hemp in accordance with new federal hemp regulations.

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NORML

MARCH 22, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! Activists in Oregon have filed a 2020 ballot initiative with the Secretary of State that, if approved, would allow social cannabis consumption sites and protect consumers from employment discrimination. Actions to Take. California. CA resident?

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NORML

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Trenton, NJ – Garden State NORML and cannabis consumers across New Jersey are calling on legislators to find an immediate solution to stop arresting nearly 100 people every day for possessing small amounts of marijuana. Twenty-one states and over one hundred cities have enacted such provisions. “Enough is enough. .

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NORML

JUNE 14, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! House of Representatives’ Small Business Committee will hold a hearing on Wednesday on the challenges and opportunities small businesses face in the cannabis industry. Send a message to your federal lawmakers in support of this important legislation.

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NORML

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! The Arkansas House Rules Committee killed a bill that would have expanded the list of qualifying medical conditions eligible for medical cannabis. ” At a more local level, the decriminalization policy in Dayton, Ohio went into effect this week.

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NORML

JANUARY 4, 2019

Happy New Year and welcome to the first Weekly Legislative Roundup of 2019! And at a more local level, Dayton, Ohio is considering a proposal to completely decriminalize marijuana and remove the $150 possession fine. Click here to email your member of Congress and urge them to join the Cannabis Caucus. Pennsylvania.

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NORML

MARCH 15, 2019

Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup! 1647, the Veterans Equal Access Act, which expands medical cannabis access to eligible military veterans. At the state level, activists in Idaho have begun efforts to qualify a medical cannabis and hemp ballot initiative for the 2020 ballot.

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NORML

JUNE 7, 2019

NORML Announces Plans for 2019 Conference and Lobby Day. “To a large degree, that has been a war on cannabis, but it’s also been a war on people, it’s been disproportionately a war on certain communities,” Read more from WTTW News ! Below is a brief rundown of some of their most recent accomplishments.

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

January 31, 2019. Portland, OR — Today the Oregon Liquor Control Commission provided the Oregon Legislative Assembly with the 2019 Recreational Marijuana Supply and Demand Legislative Report required by ORS 475B.548. 2019 Recreational Marijuana Supply and Demand Legislative Report.

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SpeedWeed

APRIL 6, 2021

London Mayor Sadiq Khan will form a commission to study the potential of decriminalization of cannabis if he is re-elected next month, according to media reports from the United Kingdom. In 2019, a public opinion poll found that nearly two-thirds (63%) of the city’s residents support the legalization and regulation of cannabis.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 1, 2019

Cannabis-related businesses, especially those from disadvantaged communities, would be eligible to get loans backed by the federal Small Business Administration for the first time under proposed legislation. Chairwoman Velázquez Announces Bills to Open SBA Programs to Legal Cannabis Businesses. Washington, June 28, 2019.

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The Blunt Truth

AUGUST 6, 2019

On July 29, 2019, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) signed state legislation that further decriminalizes the possession of cannabis. Possession of cannabis in “public view” could still result in charges and arrest. Additional provisions of the bill level cannabis convictions.

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Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 15, 2022

While the national leadership of the activist group Decriminalize Nature has supported dozens of local chapters to push for the reform of laws governing psychedelics, some of those chapters are now breaking away due to disagreements over guiding principles and conflicts with board members. When Decriminalize Nature was founded in ear??ly

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The Blunt Truth

MARCH 7, 2019

Senator Cory Booker (D – NJ) has introduced the Marijuana Justice Act of 2019 that would legalize cannabis at the federal level, remove it from the schedule of controlled substances and expunge federal marijuana-related criminal records. This legislation would set up a retail marketplace.

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The Blunt Truth

DECEMBER 5, 2019

New Jersey is talking about decriminalizing marijuana. Now, Governor Phil Murphy is pushing for statewide decriminalization , as a stop-gap measure. In other state news, Michigan ‘s sales of recreational cannabis began on Sunday, amid long lines of customers. Also, its rules now align with the 2018 farm bill.

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Veriheal

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Despite Louisiana’s slow warm-up to cannabis, the state is making significant progress when it comes to cannabis legal reform. ” Cannabis in Louisiana. ” Cannabis in Louisiana. Up until recently, the state government of Louisiana largely supported cannabis prohibition.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 31, 2023

Over the past few years, since about 2019, several legislative measures on both the state level and within local municipalities have either decriminalized the possession of natural psychedelics or legalized certain plants for medical use such as in the state of Oregon.

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The Blunt Truth

AUGUST 29, 2019

A researcher filed suit against the DEA, claiming the cannabis she was required to use in her work was “sub-par.” He also favors legalizing cannabis. Check out the Cannabis Voter Project website. It has info on elected officials and the status of cannabis in each state.

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NORML

JANUARY 9, 2020

2019 was a record year for marijuana reform, with more NORML chapters holding lobby days than ever before. With the 2020 legislative session already in full swing in many states, NORML chapters across the country are organizing lobby days to advocate for sensible reform policies in their state. Maryland Cannabis Policy Lobby Day.

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NORML

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

There have been so far been eight major reform bills introduced in the New Hampshire General Court during the current legislative session. It passed the House on 2/27/2019 by a vote of 209-147. For more information on this bill and to send a message to your State Senator in support of this legislation, click here.

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The Blunt Truth

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Welcome to The Week in Weed’s look back at the news of 2019; whether the year has flown by or seemed to last forever, it’s (almost) over now. Without further ado, here’s a look at the stories that grabbed our attention in 2019. In February, we saw the first ever Congressional hearing on cannabis banking.

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NORML

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

There are three major reform bills in the New Jersey State Legislature during the current legislative session. 3205 ) and to send a message to your state lawmaker in urgent support of this legislation, click here. 10 would expand patients’ access to medical cannabis through several means. Companion bills S. 2703 and A.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 17, 2022

million in grants to a trio of non-profit groups for the purposes of reviewing and sealing the records of those with low-level cannabis convictions. As a result of these laws, state and local officials nationwide have moved to either expunge or seal the records of over two million people with state-specific cannabis convictions. “Our

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 18, 2021

As we previously reported , on February 22, 2021, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed three separate cannabis reform bills into law ( NJ A21 , NJ A 1897 , and NJ A5342/NJ S3454 ), formally legalizing the use and possession of recreational marijuana in the Garden State. Other jurisdictions are catching up to the marijuana law frenzy.

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NORML

AUGUST 13, 2019

adult-use, patient access, decriminalization etc.) Priority legislation includes: the Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act , the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment, and Expungement (MORE) Act , the VA Medicinal Cannabis Research Act and more! Lastly, register for NORML’s 2019 Conference and Lobby Day !

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The Blunt Truth

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

In Wisconsin meanwhile, legislators introduced a decriminalization and expungement bill. Lawmakers are also writing new legislation to legalize hemp, after the governor vetoed an earlier bill. By throwing a “cannabis open house.” Business license applications are also a hot topic in Michigan.

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The Blunt Truth

JUNE 27, 2019

That makes 11 states and the District of Columbia that have legalized recreational cannabis. The legislature decriminalized cannabis, once legalization failed. Moving out west, Oregon would very much like to sell its surplus cannabis in other states , but federal law stands in its way. See you next week!

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The Blunt Truth

JUNE 20, 2019

Perhaps cannabis proponents will have better luck in 2020. But the jury’s still out on whether New Jersey governor Phil Murphy will sign the legislation. State attorneys general have been quite vocal about cannabis lately. Now Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring is calling for the state to decriminalize marijuana.

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The Blunt Truth

JANUARY 3, 2019

Welcome also to a new year of Week in Weed; after the many cannabis-related events of 2018 , one can only imagine what will be occupying our attention in 2019… This week, saw the release of a disappointing report on the possibility of cannabis banks in California. Vincent and the Grenadines has decriminalized marijuana.

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The Cannigma

JULY 5, 2022

Cannabis regulation in Georgia is complicated, but the plant is still illegal. There is no adult-use market, thought several cities have decriminalized possession. Several cities have decriminalized cannabis possession, but this is not statewide. Georgia’s medical cannabis program. Possible penalties.

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Veriheal

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

This year, voters will have the opportunity to decide whether or not recreational cannabis can be used legally in a total of five states: Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Dakota, and South Dakota. What Do the Cannabis Legalization Initiatives Entail? veriheal.com Get out there and vote #news #vote #potus #election #2022midterms ?

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Lawmakers have filed four cannabis-related bills since the legislative session began in January. Proposed bills include, one for legalization of medical cannabis and one for responsible adult use of marijuana. Bevin is opposed to legislation regarding recreational use.

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